The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1020

00:00:00.240 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eaters, and I don't even know what day it is. It's Friday. What's the date today?

00:00:06.220 I think it's the 11th of October.

00:00:07.780 It is the 11th of October. Thank you. For some reason, my new tablet doesn't tell me what the date is. It's not good.

00:00:13.840 Anyway, I'm joined by Stelios, who's just saved me the day, and Harrison Pitt from New Culture Forum. How's it going?

00:00:19.220 Good to be back. Thank you.

00:00:20.200 Good. And today, we are going to be talking about the case for Kamala Harris, which is being advanced.

00:00:27.100 Is there any reason that's up, by the way?

00:00:30.000 Samson. Sorry.

00:00:34.080 What? The Common Sense Crusade?

00:00:36.840 The pub quiz.

00:00:39.900 Sorry, folks. Not quite fully prepared today. There we go.

00:00:44.280 Yes, so today we're going to be talking about the case for Kamala Harris.

00:00:47.820 We are going to be talking about how Viktor Orban is standing up to the EU,

00:00:51.180 and the curious incident of a Nigerian pirate who is now strangely integrated into Denmark.

00:01:02.000 I mean, there are cultural continuities, aren't there?

00:01:06.220 Oh, are there? You tell me.

00:01:09.860 What's democracy in Nigeria?

00:01:10.720 I really want to see what you have prepared for.

00:01:12.360 Yeah, it's very, it's just really emblematic of everything that's wrong with the mindset that's running the West at the moment.

00:01:19.640 But anyway, before we begin, after this podcast, we are, of course, doing a lads hour.

00:01:24.900 And Harrison will be joining us for another pub quiz, because this was by popular demand, apparently.

00:01:29.840 I missed the first one.

00:01:30.780 And so we'll be doing the second one.

00:01:33.500 Lots of audience questions, I understand.

00:01:36.520 And I've always been terrible at pub quizzes, because they're always cultural. 0.97

00:01:40.220 It's like, oh, well, who scored this goal in the 1986 final?

00:01:43.820 I said, I don't know. I don't watch football.

00:01:45.680 Or who played this instrument in this band?

00:01:47.740 I said, I don't know. I don't watch pop music.

00:01:49.800 I know this is pop music.

00:01:50.920 So hopefully I'm a bit better on this one.

00:01:53.260 And just a final reminder, by the way, if I can get the focus properly.

00:01:58.440 This is the very final day that you will be able to purchase Islander.

00:02:04.080 It's done really, really well, and it's a really great magazine.

00:02:07.040 I'm really proud of it.

00:02:08.060 And there has been a slight delay with the printer.

00:02:10.240 We do apologize.

00:02:12.220 It seems to be a miscommunication.

00:02:14.420 But I've been informed reliably that the first batches are actually leaving now, rather than two weeks ago.

00:02:20.640 So apologies for that.

00:02:22.140 But we will receive our copy very soon.

00:02:24.700 Anyway, so.

00:02:26.720 I've always wondered.

00:02:28.440 If the answer is Kamala Harris, what is the question?

00:02:33.600 What exactly are we being offered with this?

00:02:37.860 Name a talentless politician.

00:02:40.700 What the? 0.80

00:02:41.400 Whoa.

00:02:43.000 Are there less talented politicians than Kamala Harris? 1.00

00:02:46.920 Possibly.

00:02:47.800 Possibly.

00:02:48.720 Her VP pick.

00:02:50.080 Yeah.

00:02:50.280 Well, she struggled even to, well, she didn't even get a chance to win over the affections of her own state, California, 0.91

00:02:58.580 when she was running for that primary nomination in 2018, 2019, there or thereabouts.

00:03:03.720 So badly did her campaign go.

00:03:05.440 She's purely a DEI promotion, a DEI hire, as we all know, and we're seeing her lack of skills before us.

00:03:10.600 And the same thing applied in the 2020 primaries as well.

00:03:14.440 She dropped out with 5%.

00:03:15.800 Nobody liked her.

00:03:18.060 And somehow, she's got the entire structure of, I don't know what you call it, the vast Democrat machine.

00:03:28.700 She's at the very top of this pyramid all of a sudden.

00:03:31.040 And it's just one of those things where she's just continued to fail upward for her entire career.

00:03:36.400 So you realize, okay, well, something else is happening here.

00:03:40.620 I mean, if it wasn't obvious enough with Joe Biden, at least Joe Biden had a kind of plausible deniability.

00:03:44.880 Well, he's a venerable elder statesman.

00:03:47.040 He's got lots of support because he's been in the Senate or wherever it was for 30 plus years.

00:03:52.800 He's been the vice president.

00:03:54.160 He is at least a plausible candidate to be the mask of the machine.

00:04:00.180 But Kamala Harris so clearly isn't. 0.97

00:04:02.340 She's not competent. 0.61

00:04:03.280 She obviously hasn't done this herself.

00:04:04.900 Someone has done this for her.

00:04:07.180 And so it was with great wonder that I saw this from The Atlantic for only the fifth time.

00:04:14.060 Sounds like it's becoming a bit of a habit, doesn't it?

00:04:16.640 You know, I happen to have only gone out and got blind drunk for the fifth time.

00:04:21.740 You know, it's not something that's only.

00:04:25.100 But The Atlantic is endorsing a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, because, quote,

00:04:29.200 She believes in the freedom, equality and dignity of all Americans.

00:04:32.780 Our editors write, she won't abuse the power of the highest office in order to keep it. 0.76

00:04:37.420 Why?

00:04:38.220 Hasn't she abused the power? 1.00

00:04:44.480 Wokeness is all about abusing power.

00:04:46.360 Uh, yes.

00:04:48.400 And, I mean, if there's, like, she didn't exactly run a sterling campaign for the Democratic nomination this time, did she?

00:04:56.480 No, she was just, didn't, just decided upon.

00:04:59.300 But I've decided I'm into some esoteric stuff.

00:05:02.620 Oh, yeah.

00:05:02.880 And I see the esoteric message here.

00:05:05.680 She's for the Fed. 0.95

00:05:07.300 Uh, yeah.

00:05:07.760 She said freedom, equality and dignity.

00:05:09.560 If you take the first letters, F, E, D, it's for the Fed.

00:05:13.520 Yeah, I'd appreciate a bit of a numerological analysis of this as well, actually.

00:05:17.380 I put absolutely zero stock in arcane numerology.

00:05:22.640 It is funny to see people doing it.

00:05:24.660 But what I particularly liked about this is, oh, it's an empty chair.

00:05:28.400 Yeah.

00:05:29.100 Significant in itself.

00:05:30.460 It's very interesting, isn't it?

00:05:32.860 But anyway, I thought we'd just have a quick look at this article.

00:05:35.520 This is, it's just preposterous.

00:05:37.420 Can I just say something very quickly about the endorsement itself?

00:05:40.880 One of the virtues of Trump, there are plenty, a fair few vices as well, it must be said.

00:05:46.900 But one of the virtues of Trump is that he really did trigger the whole kind of nexus of media,

00:05:53.840 cultural and academic elites into having this sort of mask off moment.

00:05:57.020 The Atlantic in the early 2010s was sort of this kind of high-minded, you know, sort of liberal with a small L.

00:06:04.720 Same as the sort of New York.

00:06:06.060 Exactly.

00:06:06.420 And there's a reason why they've gone into overdrive like this.

00:06:11.760 And so he really has made the media reveal themselves.

00:06:13.720 I mean, I even remember watching in 2016, you sort of watch things like CNN,

00:06:17.440 and there was a kind of patina that they were going to be balanced.

00:06:19.800 Whereas that pretense has been more or less dropped now.

00:06:23.020 Yes.

00:06:23.360 The fancy font newspapers have all had to just simply come out and admit,

00:06:30.900 yeah, we're actually left-partisans.

00:06:34.120 It's not about being reasonable.

00:06:35.620 And in fact, they make that abundantly clear in this.

00:06:39.920 Because the first five paragraphs of them just complaining about Trump.

00:06:42.700 We're just, we hate Trump. 0.69

00:06:45.140 We hate Trump. 0.95

00:06:46.000 We hate Trump. 0.99

00:06:47.200 We hate Trump. 0.90

00:06:48.300 We're still going on about Trump.

00:06:49.800 This year, Trump.

00:06:50.920 It's like, sorry, were we talking about someone that you were endorsing?

00:06:54.920 You know these books where they say reasons to vote Democrat and they have nothing?

00:06:58.880 Yes.

00:06:59.120 Yeah, so essentially what the Democrats are going to do, reasons for voting Kamala Harris.

00:07:03.480 And it's going to be a Jack Torrance author book where it's going to say she's not Trump.

00:07:07.820 She's not Trump.

00:07:08.560 She's not Trump.

00:07:09.440 Endlessly.

00:07:10.240 That appears to be the core pillar of her campaign.

00:07:12.820 Yeah.

00:07:13.940 As we can see from this.

00:07:15.760 I mean, apparently Trump has been even more vicious and erratic than in the past.

00:07:20.700 The ideas of his close advisors are even more extreme.

00:07:24.580 I don't know.

00:07:25.400 I think Trump's a lot more moderate than he used to be.

00:07:27.480 That's right.

00:07:27.980 And he's a lot less pugnacious with the media, which is a shame because I personally enjoyed

00:07:34.180 that because it was very entertaining.

00:07:37.380 But he's pursuing a far right agenda.

00:07:40.720 As I've been reliably informed by the media, Project 2025 will cleanse America of its corruption

00:07:47.260 in a fiery hell storm that will leave no persons surviving.

00:07:51.840 I mean, everything I've heard about Project 2025 has just sounded wonderful and I'm totally

00:07:59.400 for it.

00:08:00.380 But anyway, as I said, the first five paragraphs are just whining about Trump.

00:08:05.000 So that really sets the scene because I always feel that if you have to project something

00:08:09.640 purely in opposition to something else, then the thing itself can't be that important.

00:08:12.920 Because otherwise you just tell me about the virtues of the thing that you're promoting.

00:08:17.060 And that would, by corollary, become antagonistic to something else, but it would be centered

00:08:23.140 in your own perspective.

00:08:25.220 And in their case, it probably would still be a little overdone.

00:08:27.820 I mean, they made this positive case very strongly and would continue to do so if he was eligible

00:08:31.980 for a third term with Obama because he did have a certain razzmatazz about him.

00:08:35.680 He was clearly intelligent, fairly smooth, fairly suave.

00:08:38.160 And you had all of these very, very, very, as I say, slightly overly complimentary, obsequious

00:08:43.760 pieces.

00:08:44.620 But they can't do that at all here.

00:08:47.780 It's just pure bitterness and catastrophizing.

00:08:50.700 What would you say about Kamala?

00:08:52.340 Well, no, there's nothing to say.

00:08:53.680 I think that's a good point that both of you are raising because I remember Machiavelli who

00:08:57.580 was saying that, you know, the two prime motives of action are fear and hope.

00:09:02.420 And when it comes to fear, this is obviously a piece that tries to induce fear in people.

00:09:08.920 The question is, everyone does it.

00:09:10.860 We could say everyone does it.

00:09:11.920 But when it comes to the positive, when it comes to the articulation of a vision of hope,

00:09:16.060 they have nothing.

00:09:17.180 All they have is just empty words.

00:09:19.000 Yeah, they'll say, you know, Fed, freedom, equality and dignity.

00:09:22.440 But if you talk to them, they don't know what it means.

00:09:24.780 Yeah.

00:09:24.860 It's also important that we don't attack the concept of fear-mongering too much.

00:09:30.560 It's a very left-wing thing to do.

00:09:33.120 You're just fear-mongering with your hate facts.

00:09:36.220 I mean, they will destroy the world if they get elected.

00:09:38.680 Yes, exactly.

00:09:39.360 So it all hinges on whether the fears are well-founded and whether the hopes are well-founded.

00:09:44.040 So we're both new to be operative.

00:09:45.740 But that should be the main thrust of our case, not that they're fear-mongering, but that

00:09:48.920 they're fear-mongering in the most demented, catastrophizing way possible.

00:09:51.880 But also in a way that just, I mean, normally when you're fear-mongering, there has to be

00:09:56.840 a ring of truth about it, right?

00:09:58.940 Okay, well, that person, like Jeremy Corbyn, may well have tanked the economy.

00:10:03.000 Entirely possible if John McDonnell becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer.

00:10:06.300 I mean, things would be worse than they are now, and things are pretty bad now.

00:10:09.360 So it's a plausible possibility.

00:10:12.760 But when you have actually quite a glowing record of economic success, prosperity, world

00:10:16.660 peace, and deepening diplomatic ties in different and difficult areas, the catastrophizing is

00:10:24.460 a bit more difficult to pull off, isn't it?

00:10:26.240 So everyone remembers what the price of petrol was, or the price of food was.

00:10:30.520 Everyone remembers how, okay, the media was on fire complaining that Trump wasn't saying

00:10:36.580 liberal things, but there weren't any new wars.

00:10:39.640 There wasn't a disaster in Afghanistan where billions of dollars of military equipment made

00:10:45.040 the Taliban like the fourth biggest military in the world or something like that.

00:10:48.120 You know, there are so many such things that Donald Trump didn't do and did do that mean,

00:10:53.640 and again, it was only four years ago.

00:10:55.500 It's not like it's out of living memory or something.

00:10:57.740 It's not like it was a decade ago.

00:10:59.160 It was only four years ago.

00:11:00.280 And so I thought we would get to their positive statement on Kamala Harris, right?

00:11:06.440 So they make their case in advance by just pointing out, hang on a second, we're a heterodox

00:11:11.520 place staffed by free thinkers.

00:11:14.300 And whenever I hear the term free thinker, I just hear Nietzsche in the back of my head

00:11:18.920 going, yeah, those free thinkers all think the same, don't they?

00:11:21.380 It's the free spirits.

00:11:22.500 No, no, no.

00:11:22.760 We believe in every possible shade of gay race communism at this publication. 0.99

00:11:27.940 We really do.

00:11:28.340 There's no limit to the number of pronouns we are prepared to count.

00:11:32.240 But that's the, again, whenever I hear free thinkers, Nietzsche is very much there going,

00:11:36.040 yeah, that's the problem, isn't it?

00:11:37.420 They all think they are all free thinkers because they're all exactly the same.

00:11:42.740 And so they say, well, I mean, for some of us, Kamala Harris is just too centrist.

00:11:47.140 And for others, they're just too liberal.

00:11:48.880 So you're exactly right. 0.97

00:11:49.880 So what shade of gay race communism? 0.92

00:11:51.980 And they literally just admit it. 0.95

00:11:53.960 The process that led to her nomination was flawed.

00:11:56.020 Um, what was that process?

00:11:59.620 Does anyone remember how she became nominated?

00:12:02.720 Because I actually don't really know.

00:12:04.400 Yeah, I remember.

00:12:05.940 It's just one day, it turns out they're not having a primary and Kamala Harris is a candidate

00:12:10.360 and there was just no debate on it.

00:12:12.280 And no one on the left had any critiques of this.

00:12:14.580 And those who did, people at Anna Kasparian, got defense-traded from the left and were told,

00:12:19.540 no, you're a Nazi now because you wanted an open and transparent process to choose the candidate.

00:12:26.840 So, yeah, I mean, flawed is definitely one way of putting it.

00:12:30.320 Translation.

00:12:31.320 High-profile Democrats knew that they were going to lose the election and didn't want to run.

00:12:37.280 You know what, that's definitely an interesting take on it.

00:12:41.260 Yeah, I remember.

00:12:41.860 Everyone was thinking that it was going to be Gavin Newsom.

00:12:44.840 Because in the minds of Democrats, he sort of...

00:12:48.460 He's a plausible candidate.

00:12:49.520 Yeah, he sort of seems like a plausible candidate.

00:12:52.780 Yeah.

00:12:53.160 I do think there's something to the idea that they were hoist by their own petard in that way as well, though.

00:12:57.080 Because one of the edges that we really do have on the left today, if only we leaned into it a bit more,

00:13:02.520 is that they are thoroughly anti-meritocratic as a matter of principle at this point.

00:13:06.980 And that can redound to our advantage.

00:13:10.780 We're accepting here that Gavin Newsom, on just purely meritocratic criteria,

00:13:15.080 would be doing better than Kamala Harris. 0.91

00:13:17.300 But the optics in their own ideological circles of a kind of smooth, tall, handsome, suave wasp

00:13:26.740 supplanting this half-Indian, half-Jamaican woman, who's a DEI promotion.

00:13:31.520 And explicitly so, as Joe Biden said.

00:13:33.580 It just would have been awful.

00:13:34.880 And so that's something we should take more advantage of.

00:13:37.420 Yeah, the right is much more prepared to countenance disagreement as well, I've noticed.

00:13:43.340 There's a bizarre...

00:13:45.340 I mean, like, for example, Ron DeSantis was openly challenging Trump last time.

00:13:51.060 And now he's just been folded back in.

00:13:53.740 Everyone's like, I don't know, he's still a decent chap.

00:13:56.300 But it wasn't something that went without debate or conflict.

00:14:01.380 Whereas on the left, everyone just fell into line.

00:14:03.980 Right, okay, Kamala Harris has been...

00:14:05.600 Well, she's been ordained by the Church of Leftism, however it works in the Democrat Party.

00:14:11.920 And I'm just a true believer and I have to get in and now I have to support her.

00:14:15.340 And Tim Walsh, who nobody knew until five minutes ago.

00:14:17.880 Oh, but now he's brilliant and we all love him and we're all going to their rallies.

00:14:21.300 Because if we don't, the other side will point that out.

00:14:24.440 It reflects the way in which things...

00:14:27.280 I was talking about the media acting in a more brazen fashion.

00:14:29.780 And Trump has sort of lifted, sort of exposed that.

00:14:34.840 The Democrat Party machine is also acting in a more brazen fashion.

00:14:37.420 I mean, it's one thing to rig a primary process, which many people would argue happened against Bernie Sanders in 2016.

00:14:42.840 Lots of WikiLeaks emails suggested that Debbie Washburn and Schultz behind the scenes was maneuvering for a Hillary nomination. 1.00

00:14:49.340 It's one thing not to have a process at all and to have that in clear daylight.

00:14:55.080 I mean, I would respect them more if they just said,

00:14:57.500 no, we're going to choose candidates based on a kind of executive model.

00:15:02.500 Well, okay, well, that's not how I think it should be done, but I would at least respect the fact that you have a plan.

00:15:08.940 But instead, it's very cloak and dagger, behind the scenes, very shady.

00:15:13.260 Again, a very kind of Wizard of Oz, frankly.

00:15:16.180 What's going on? Who are these people?

00:15:18.360 And if you ask Elon Musk, he'll say they're part of an international noncing ring to Epstein client list.

00:15:27.320 But I'm not close to them. I don't know.

00:15:30.980 Anyway, so the positive endorsement from the Atlantic comes about seven paragraphs in,

00:15:38.980 which is interesting because you'd think that'd be front and center.

00:15:42.680 But they say, quote,

00:15:43.920 Having devoted her life to public service, Harris respects the law and the Constitution.

00:15:49.360 She believes in the freedom, equality, and dignity of all Americans.

00:15:51.620 She's untainted by corruption. 1.00

00:15:54.260 Untainted by an American politician.

00:15:57.180 They're talking about folks.

00:15:59.660 Let alone a felony record or a history of sexual assault.

00:16:03.100 She doesn't embarrass her compatriots with her language and behavior.

00:16:07.140 Doesn't she?

00:16:08.880 Okay.

00:16:10.040 I mean, she is very spontaneous in her talk.

00:16:13.920 I mean, she has the gifts of the orator.

00:16:17.040 She cackles like the Joker. 1.00

00:16:19.200 Yeah, and never changes accents.

00:16:22.260 We'll get to the accents in a minute.

00:16:24.380 I particularly enjoy her accents.

00:16:25.780 She's my favorite children's entertainer.

00:16:28.040 It turns out when your enemies are actually not weaponizing the justice system against you,

00:16:31.600 you don't have a felony record.

00:16:33.040 Yeah, that's weird.

00:16:34.020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:16:35.820 What a strange coincidence.

00:16:37.100 Yes.

00:16:37.940 But I like the she respects law and order as well.

00:16:40.880 Does she, though?

00:16:42.240 Because she took some executive actions to keep people in jail by...

00:16:47.380 Didn't she deny evidence or deny the access of evidence to one of their cases and things like that? 0.53

00:16:51.260 Yeah, so 10 candidates on death row.

00:16:52.660 That was Tulsi Gabbard's main beef, wasn't it, in sort of 2019?

00:16:55.680 Because it seemed evil.

00:16:56.600 Yes, and she also promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund, euphemistically called, for Black Lives Matter rioters and encouraged people to donate to it. 0.54

00:17:06.060 I'm sure she's on board with all of these Soros-funded prosecutors as well who think that a certain amount of enforced inequality is necessary to make unequal people equal

00:17:16.840 in trying to avoid disparate impact and therefore selectively enforcing the law based on racial criteria as well.

00:17:23.540 Well, she says as much whenever she's caught in a lucid moment.

00:17:27.920 But anyway, she won't abuse the power of the highest office in order to keep it. 1.00

00:17:31.480 She believes in democracy.

00:17:33.340 These and not any specific policy positions are the reason The Atlantic is endorsing her.

00:17:38.520 And that's interesting because the specific policy positions are something she's flip-flopped on quite a lot.

00:17:44.540 She's taken lots of different positions on the border, on justice, on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, nothing about the Nineteenth Amendment yet.

00:17:53.520 But she's been, I mean, contradictory is a generous way of putting it, totally inconsistent, utterly...

00:18:04.280 All over the place.

00:18:05.040 Yeah, I'm trying to think of ways that aren't too condemnatory.

00:18:08.820 Begging the question, yeah.

00:18:09.660 Yeah.

00:18:10.540 And so I just came away from this going, right, you're doing it because you have to, right?

00:18:17.100 Not because she's going to do anything good, no specific policy positions yet, because, I mean, what is she even offering?

00:18:23.120 There aren't any.

00:18:23.720 Exactly.

00:18:24.960 She seems, in fact, at the moment to be stealing a lot of her policy suggestions from Trump himself.

00:18:30.340 And so they end with this, quote,

00:18:33.120 I don't think that that's really how Americans generally feel.

00:18:54.700 They don't look at Kamala Harris and go, yeah, hmm, hope.

00:18:56.860 Also, the person who defeated the Sphinx had a particular degenerate history in his mating practices.

00:19:03.480 Yeah.

00:19:03.700 Do you really want America to become Oedipus?

00:19:06.400 Yes.

00:19:07.060 Is that really what the Atlantic is asking for?

00:19:10.620 I mean, just where's the respect for mothers and for motherhood?

00:19:13.680 And for fathers?

00:19:14.620 Yeah.

00:19:15.260 I mean, for non-incestuous relations, generally.

00:19:20.640 I mean, that's it.

00:19:21.580 That was it.

00:19:22.400 So, right, yeah.

00:19:23.120 Okay, anyway, so let's hope that the incestuous Democrat Party don't slay the Sphinx of Trump. 1.00

00:19:30.060 But I thought we'd have a quick look at the endorsements of Kamala Harris, because, of course, she has a lot of endorsements.

00:19:35.660 It's very, very interesting.

00:19:37.600 So you've got federal executive officials, so, of course, Joe Biden, former Democrat presidents, Dick Cheney, which seems like something you'd want taken off there.

00:19:46.380 Yeah, Dick Cheney's endorsement, so, well, don't tell anyone.

00:19:50.300 Like, Christ on a bike.

00:19:51.660 Al Gore, the most correct predictor in all the world.

00:19:55.980 America's Cassandra, in fact, I would say, if we're going to use Greek metaphors.

00:19:59.160 But then, obviously, loads of Democrats, cabinet members, blah, blah, blah, blah, right.

00:20:02.880 So lots of...

00:20:03.380 What's that one?

00:20:04.460 What's that set?

00:20:05.340 Is that called the Intelligence Community?

00:20:06.560 If you go up, what does it say?

00:20:07.280 Oh, there is the Intelligence Community.

00:20:09.340 We can get to that.

00:20:10.720 These are cabinet officials.

00:20:11.980 Ah, I see.

00:20:12.340 Have a little bit of a shot.

00:20:12.860 So, representatives, statewide officials, tribes and tribal leaders.

00:20:17.560 Yes.

00:20:18.800 Okay, yeah, so...

00:20:19.640 Okay, reservations and all that sort of thing.

00:20:22.760 International politicians, blah, blah, blah, newspapers and other publications.

00:20:26.540 And, again, it's just exactly what you'd think.

00:20:29.980 It's almost as if Curtis Yarvin himself has put together this Wikipedia entry in order to vindicate the existence of the cathedral.

00:20:34.940 I mean, look at...

00:20:35.980 What are these, if not the various different flying buttresses and pillars of what Yarvin calls the cathedral?

00:20:40.940 Very much so.

00:20:41.660 And, again, when it's international organizations in here somewhere...

00:20:46.460 Sadiq Khan.

00:20:47.500 Oh, yeah, of course Sadiq Khan.

00:20:48.840 Yeah.

00:20:49.200 Of course Sadiq Khan.

00:20:49.900 The General Secretary of NATO.

00:20:51.580 You know what happened that I found absolutely astonishing and weird?

00:20:55.900 So somewhere in Wiltshire, outside the Dorothy Hospice, which is a place where they resell used furniture,

00:21:03.060 they had a huge picture of Kamala Harris.

00:21:06.040 So they also endorsed her.

00:21:08.060 Of course they did. 1.00

00:21:08.960 Oh, damn. 0.99

00:21:09.420 But there was essentially what this is. 0.99

00:21:12.300 And, again, you can see down the list.

00:21:14.200 It's just...

00:21:15.260 It's essentially just a summary of the U.S. deep state.

00:21:18.800 This is what we're being given here.

00:21:21.460 And this goes all the way down to academics, newspapers, you know, entertainers.

00:21:29.300 Like, you can see everyone who is just on this side.

00:21:33.920 I mean, I've never heard of half these actors and actresses, to be honest.

00:21:36.960 Yeah, who's George Clooney?

00:21:38.780 Well, I didn't even see him on there.

00:21:40.260 But there's, again, huge numbers.

00:21:42.420 And so the question is, well, what are they exactly endorsing?

00:21:44.960 And Kamala herself went on Stephen Colbert the other day and explained to us precisely what she's going to bring to the table.

00:21:51.880 But a lot of people, especially independent voters, really want this to be a change election and that they tend to break for you in terms of thinking about change.

00:22:03.140 You are a member of the president of the administration.

00:22:06.400 Under a Harris administration, what would the major changes be?

00:22:11.900 And what would stay the same?

00:22:13.540 Sure.

00:22:14.100 Well, I mean, I'm obviously not Joe Biden.

00:22:16.820 I noticed.

00:22:17.100 And so that would be one change in terms of...

00:22:21.140 But also, I think it's important to say with, you know, 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump.

00:22:28.480 And so when we think about the significance of what...

00:22:33.140 Sorry, did you want to...

00:22:34.600 No, I just said that, you know, I think that this goes without saying.

00:22:39.560 I like the idea that I wish we could have seen the audience there when she said, obviously, I'm not Joe Biden.

00:22:44.320 I wonder if there was a kind of...

00:22:45.160 Do we clap that?

00:22:47.440 Or are we not allowed?

00:22:48.280 Oh, and then she says the Trump ones.

00:22:49.580 Oh, yeah, we definitely clap that.

00:22:50.420 I think she's...

00:22:50.960 Much simpler.

00:22:51.640 She's advocating for de-Bidenification. 0.99

00:22:54.240 She's going to pull a Khrushchev and she's going to say Joe Biden was far right.

00:22:59.280 That's what she's going to do.

00:23:00.420 He did put on the Trump cap, didn't he?

00:23:02.160 Yeah.

00:23:02.340 So maybe.

00:23:03.480 There's definitely some low-key sabotage going on there.

00:23:05.720 He was very complimentary about Ron DeSantis after she had called him out.

00:23:09.580 Yeah, it's very weird.

00:23:10.940 But, I mean, we'll listen to the rest of our answer to see how vacuous it is.

00:23:14.400 What this next generation of leadership looks like, were I to be elected president, it is about, frankly, I love the American people and I believe in our country.

00:23:26.040 I love that it is our character and nature to be an ambitious people.

00:23:33.360 You know, we have aspirations, we have dreams, we have incredible work ethic and I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we've achieved in a way that we continue to grow opportunity and in that way grow the strength of our nation.

00:23:53.020 So, for example, my economic policies, I think of it and I've named it as creating an opportunity economy.

00:23:59.180 So it's about things like investing in small businesses.

00:24:02.280 I love our small businesses.

00:24:03.620 So, vacuous nonsense.

00:24:08.100 Yes.

00:24:09.060 Just boilerplate.

00:24:10.560 Yeah, and Trump has his moments where he kind of goes into kind of a rhetorical.

00:24:16.100 Yes.

00:24:16.500 And he definitely does.

00:24:17.400 But firstly, he seems very authentic when he's doing it.

00:24:20.180 Not necessarily honest, but very, very extremely authentic when he's doing it.

00:24:24.500 But it is reinforced by certain details and policy proposals.

00:24:28.920 And here.

00:24:29.360 Pattern of behavior.

00:24:29.820 Yeah, yes, exactly.

00:24:30.740 So, sorry, she goes, oh, yes, well, there are my sort of 10 platitudinous bullet points.

00:24:34.740 But as for policy, and then she just gives another platitudinous bullet point about liking small businesses as if that's controversial.

00:24:41.100 I also like the idea that she can be considered a change candidate.

00:24:44.600 She's obviously, she's the VP.

00:24:46.460 She's currently a member of the government, the second most important person, presumably, in America.

00:24:51.800 That would be a continuity government.

00:24:54.100 But also around it.

00:24:55.100 But also a candidate who says she respects the people's ambition.

00:24:59.760 That's why she's going to tax everyone to oblivion. 1.00

00:25:03.140 We need opportunity for wealth redistribution.

00:25:06.040 But anyway, I personally would be supporting Kamala Harris, were I a Democrat supporter.

00:25:10.220 I support Trump.

00:25:11.480 Honestly, because of her accents.

00:25:13.160 Her accents are brilliant.

00:25:14.660 And I don't think enough attention has been brought to them.

00:25:17.120 Because she's just so great.

00:25:18.220 So she gets, I think, Matt Walsh described this as an urban accent, but this sounded like a southern accent to me.

00:25:25.420 It's hard to tell.

00:25:25.940 Let's have a listen.

00:25:26.880 And you all helped us win in 2020, and we're going to do it again in 2024.

00:25:33.020 Yes, we will.

00:25:35.560 Yes, we will.

00:25:38.740 So that's a nice twang there.

00:25:40.780 But then you've got this particular one, which I don't want to do.

00:25:44.940 You better thank a union member for sick leave.

00:25:47.840 You better thank a union member for paid leave.

00:25:50.720 You better thank a union member for vacation time.

00:25:57.860 I like southern black preacher accents.

00:26:00.180 They're great.

00:26:00.860 Yeah.

00:26:01.120 Really great.

00:26:01.960 But then what about Latino accents?

00:26:03.520 They're great.

00:26:06.960 I love you back.

00:26:10.780 I hadn't seen that one.

00:26:14.220 No, no, no, no.

00:26:14.840 But she's just dropped a new accent, which is a Jamaican accent.

00:26:17.700 I think, I don't know if you've got this on the thing, but yesterday she was talking about COVID quite a bit with this kind of predominantly Latina audience.

00:26:24.320 She was saying, COVID, COVID.

00:26:26.280 Saying it like that.

00:26:27.180 But then someone got an image of her in 2020 saying it.

00:26:30.180 She's like, COVID-19.

00:26:31.180 She's speaking perfectly normal.

00:26:32.300 Yes.

00:26:32.520 Hillary Clinton did a bit of this as well. 0.98

00:26:34.300 But my favorite one, sorry, is just, she's just dropped the Jamaican accent, which I love.

00:26:38.700 Have you no empathy, man?

00:26:40.780 You know, for the suffering of other people.

00:26:46.160 Have you no sense of purpose?

00:26:50.960 More convincing than the Latina one, to be honest, because at least she's got Jamaican heritage, right? 1.00

00:26:54.660 Yes.

00:26:55.400 Have you no empathy, man?

00:26:57.720 But anyway, we'll leave that there because I don't really see much of a positive case for Kamala Harris, except as a children's entertainer, which may well be her next career move.

00:27:06.600 Don't you want to save your soul?

00:27:11.860 Maybe.

00:27:12.300 Maybe.

00:27:13.380 Davey Vers says, Sophie DK, ahoy, matey.

00:27:17.320 How be ye and your crew faring?

00:27:21.200 I feel that that's a reference to something I don't understand.

00:27:24.180 Yeah.

00:27:24.280 But, I mean, you're okay.

00:27:27.780 You get to your last segment.

00:27:30.660 Don't worry, you'll see about the last segment.

00:27:32.780 Okay.

00:27:33.060 All right, let's carry on.

00:27:33.820 Right, so Hungary has assumed the presidency of the EU Council until the end of 2024, and Viktor Orban went to the EU Parliament and gave a speech where he shared the vision that he has for Europe with other MEPs.

00:27:52.720 And, as you expect, we had lots of really nice moments there.

00:27:57.820 Orban really made the case for patriotism in Europe, and, predictably, people only had accusations, personal accusations, to make against him that he's a Russian asset.

00:28:10.020 So, just to, sorry to pause, what does presidency of the European Council do?

00:28:15.500 Well, it's probably not that much, right?

00:28:17.780 Not that much. It's a rotating position every six months.

00:28:21.780 But, I mean, you could say that it has a sort of symbolic nature, because the president of the EU Council gets to make more speeches and stuff.

00:28:33.720 Yeah, a certain amount of power to define the agenda.

00:28:36.580 Yeah.

00:28:37.260 It's like being leader of the House of Commons in a strange sort of way.

00:28:39.480 Right, right.

00:28:39.840 It kind of gives a strong push for the tone that is being adopted.

00:28:45.700 But, as you will see, a lot of people are just not having it, and they want Europe to be what it is right now, a multiculturalism hellhole.

00:28:55.060 Is this more evidence of Europe going far right?

00:28:58.240 It depends what you mean.

00:29:00.320 Yeah, but, yeah, whatever.

00:29:01.820 Oh, it was quite clear.

00:29:03.860 Anyway.

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00:29:36.540 Don't miss the opportunity.

00:29:38.700 Right, let's go here to Viktor Orban.

00:29:40.960 So, basically, he made several key points.

00:29:44.820 One of it is, we are not members of the EU because of what it is right now.

00:29:50.260 We're members of the EU because of what it could be.

00:29:53.020 And by that, he means a union that respects the sovereignty of member states and the culture of member states.

00:30:01.520 And he is essentially saying that right now, the EU is ravaged by illegal migration, by the war in Ukraine, and also by the loss of economic competitiveness, and that this has to change.

00:30:15.240 And everything the opposition had to say was, you're a Russian asset, you're a Chinese asset, and everything is okay.

00:30:25.920 Right.

00:30:26.420 I mean, I think he's got a very rose-tinted view of what the EU is meant to be, from what he's just said there.

00:30:32.400 Well, if it could be unburdened by what has been, maybe we could have a different vision for it.

00:30:39.740 Yeah, yeah.

00:30:41.840 Well, I would say that, you know, I agree with you, Karl.

00:30:45.240 I'm unburdened by what has been, but the problem with the EU is that it's just such a legalistic organism.

00:30:49.920 And so much of it's, there are so many inbuilt destinations written into its treaties, and they'd be incredibly arduous to have to kind of course correct at this point and make it more of a confederation of states rather than a federal super state, which I imagine is what Orban means by, he wants it just to be a confederation of cooperating, but nevertheless sovereign states.

00:31:10.140 I don't think that's likely to happen anytime soon.

00:31:12.360 Yes, I don't think that was the purpose of it at all, either.

00:31:14.320 The real sort of idealistic visionaries of it, people like, what's he called, Jean Monnet, who certainly saw it as a kind of way of...

00:31:20.700 United States of Europe.

00:31:21.740 Indeed, definitely.

00:31:22.740 But to add to your point, there have been voices within the EU who are saying basically we need to expand the union, and they don't say anything about the direction towards which they expand, but it is implicit.

00:31:35.660 It's implicit that they treat it just as a managerialist organization that is functioning so as to crush the national identity of the member states.

00:31:44.960 But what is interesting here is just with other figures like Millet and Bukele at the UN is that we have to see what these dissident voices mean for the people.

00:31:57.120 Because, for instance, I don't know about Orban.

00:31:59.980 I don't know about what, you know, I don't know a lot about what he's doing.

00:32:06.160 I'm not defending everything that he says.

00:32:08.300 But what is interesting is that it seems to me to be that he is the only voice within the EU who just calls for sanity.

00:32:16.900 He's one of the few voices, let me say, the EU calls for sanity.

00:32:21.300 And here we have the Slovenian MEP of European Parliament, Branko Grimms, who basically said that Hungary is peaceful, Hungary is safe.

00:32:32.040 It's not like the rest of the EU.

00:32:34.660 And we owe to Orban the example of Hungary because Hungary is against the wokeness DEI agenda and also against illegal migration.

00:32:47.080 And they have a leader that says that if we are attacked, I will defend my country.

00:32:53.460 That's why they hate him.

00:32:54.840 You can see, exactly.

00:32:55.760 So I have some clips here where he, from his speech, where he says basically facts are facts.

00:33:02.620 Whatever other people say facts speak for themselves.

00:33:05.580 And he had some beefs with Ursula von der Leyen.

00:33:09.080 And let me just show you some of the things that he said.

00:33:12.620 I'll fast forward to zero.

00:33:14.080 Just before we begin, though, let's just remember who Ursula von der Leyen is.

00:33:17.800 She's the president of the commission. 0.61

00:33:20.360 You didn't vote for her.

00:33:21.420 You didn't have any opportunity to vote for her.

00:33:23.300 And yet they'll call Viktor Orban a dictator, even though he's won four elections, is it?

00:33:28.000 Yes.

00:33:28.380 And there was a period of time where he was out of office as well.

00:33:31.120 Not like normal, how a dictator's office is.

00:33:33.640 No.

00:33:34.380 Very unusual for a dictator to spend any time out of office and then get elected back into the office.

00:33:38.920 So I want to make it very clear.

00:33:43.600 There are people in the European Union who take on a dictatorial aspect to their office.

00:33:48.520 And it's not Viktor Orban.

00:33:49.960 It is, in fact, the people who accuse him.

00:33:52.060 Yes, exactly.

00:33:52.980 Unelected bureaucrats.

00:33:54.360 Yes.

00:33:54.560 Right.

00:33:56.280 So here we have Orban talking about migration policy.

00:34:00.940 I'll translate and say, since 2015, Hungary and I personally have been engaged in serious political debates on migration.

00:34:08.400 I've seen a lot of things.

00:34:10.200 I've seen initiatives, packages, proposals that have been greeted with high hopes and all of them have failed.

00:34:16.820 He's talking about the multiculturalist dream that everything can work.

00:34:21.580 And he says the only reason for this, believe me, is that without external hotspots, we cannot protect Europeans from illegal migration.

00:34:31.400 So what is interesting here is that he says something that is obvious.

00:34:35.940 He says that what happens is with a lot of people who are asking for asylum, they come within the union and they stay within the union for as long as their application is pending.

00:34:47.520 And then even if their application isn't get accepted, what they have deportation orders and a lot of deportation orders expire and are not enforced.

00:35:00.340 So he says we need just external hotspots.

00:35:03.060 People have to apply from outside the union to come within the union.

00:35:07.120 That seems to me to be just common sense.

00:35:09.080 And also he says something, he speaks in the language of leftists here, where he says that illegal migration is Europe has led to antisemitism, violence against women and homophobia.

00:35:21.820 And says facts are facts, whether you like them or not.

00:35:25.260 This is obviously true as well.

00:35:27.380 This is obviously true.

00:35:28.500 And Europe is considerably less safe.

00:35:32.060 I think that this is demonstrable.

00:35:34.160 And we have statistics for it.

00:35:36.880 And I will show you what happened also about Germany.

00:35:40.440 Now, here we have Ursula von der Leyen, who gave a headline address in the European Parliament today. 0.59

00:35:47.100 And she essentially had to say that she's going to address three points.

00:35:52.320 War in Ukraine, economic competitiveness and migration.

00:35:58.740 And essentially her whole shtick was you're a dictator who is a Russian asset and a Chinese asset.

00:36:06.360 Again, I really want to stress, no one voted for von der Leyen.

00:36:11.220 Yes, she's even considered something of a failed politician in Germany. 1.00

00:36:15.060 I mean, this is the other thing as well.

00:36:16.440 It's not just that being elected has some sort of automatic value.

00:36:22.520 It means to an end, it means that there are direct lines of accountability between the decisions you make and whether those are vindicated at the next election.

00:36:28.420 And Orban has, whatever you think of him, consistently been vindicated in terms of the policies he pursues.

00:36:33.460 He's immensely popular in Hungary.

00:36:35.940 And he's completely redefined Hungarian politics.

00:36:38.560 And it's really good because we have some hard evidence published by the federal German police about crime statistics in Germany, which is the country of Ursula von der Leyen.

00:36:50.440 And here we have her saying, I want to address the Hungarian people.

00:36:54.960 We're one family.

00:36:55.940 Your story is our story.

00:36:57.600 Your future is our future.

00:36:59.540 Hopefully not.

00:37:00.400 Jesus Christ.

00:37:00.980 Hopefully not.

00:37:01.740 Genuinely chilling.

00:37:02.880 Yeah.

00:37:03.340 Genuinely chilling.

00:37:04.480 Whenever you hear a German talking like this. 0.98

00:37:06.420 Yes.

00:37:07.400 10 million Hungarians are 10 million good reasons to keep shaving up. 1.00

00:37:12.160 If the Hungarian future is really to be defined by Ursula von der Leyen, I don't doubt that 10 million Hungarians might still be around.

00:37:18.680 But how many non-Hungarians will there be in Hungary as well?

00:37:21.380 That's also worth considering.

00:37:23.040 I mean, when an unelected German is suddenly in charge of Europe, speaking like this, you've got to be worried. 0.99

00:37:29.560 Your future is our future.

00:37:31.180 Yeah.

00:37:31.580 And she's just like, you know, numbering them.

00:37:34.640 There are 10 million of the UR.

00:37:35.840 Okay, good.

00:37:36.540 Yeah.

00:37:36.880 And we have here from the European Conservative a shocking federal police report that talks about the effects that this vision of Ursula von der Leyen has for her country, for Germany.

00:37:49.980 The Germany that gave birth to her and that she is supposed to represent, unless I'm completely mistaken.

00:37:57.320 And I'll give you just some very hard evidence.

00:38:00.600 This is a report by the Federal Police of Germany that published some statistics.

00:38:06.720 And it says, annual crime for the year 2023 has risen by 12%, 12.5%.

00:38:15.420 Crime in 2023 in Germany has risen by 12.5% comparatively to the year 2022.

00:38:26.340 Non-Germans are six times more likely to engage in knife attacks than German citizens.

00:38:32.420 Sorry, can we just, so the total number there was 790,000.

00:38:37.000 Yeah.

00:38:38.160 Jesus Christ.

00:38:40.360 Yeah, thousands of crimes per day.

00:38:42.800 Big country, but.

00:38:44.480 Well, yeah, I mean, it's a big country.

00:38:45.420 You would expect it to have thousands of crimes, but that level of increase in criminality is not acceptable.

00:38:55.340 Especially when you get granular with the ethnic data.

00:38:57.700 Yeah.

00:38:58.020 So they have 2,165 crimes per day on average.

00:39:03.360 So the non-Germans, I repeat, are six times more likely to engage in knife attacks than German citizens.

00:39:11.400 And definitely they are not six times the German population.

00:39:16.180 So in violent acts were increased by 10%.

00:39:20.080 Sexual violence has increased by 15% to 2,500 cases, which are eight, nine per day.

00:39:29.580 Violence in train stations has risen by 11%.

00:39:34.100 And also pickpocketing incidents have increased by 16%.

00:39:38.400 Right, so trends bad across the board.

00:39:41.500 Yeah, so when Ursula von der Leyen sees this Germany and says, everything is okay. 0.82

00:39:48.240 Your future Hungary is our future.

00:39:51.420 And we're just one happy family.

00:39:53.520 That seems to me like a bad relative.

00:39:55.980 It's a relative that I would not feel particular social bonds towards.

00:39:59.840 Yeah, I mean, unless she's vindicating, vacating her office and letting Orban just take over.

00:40:06.480 I imagine the crime rates in Hungary are probably far, far lower, aren't they?

00:40:11.420 Yeah.

00:40:12.180 No, they are far lower.

00:40:13.500 Yeah, I bet they are.

00:40:14.300 But you can't explain these numbers and the over-representation of...

00:40:18.940 I'd be full of all sorts of names.

00:40:20.760 I mean, I wanted to say you cannot explain this without citing the very things that Ursula von der Leyen does not want us to talk about.

00:40:28.640 And she thinks talking about consists hate speech.

00:40:32.020 Now here, Viktor Orban basically said that he is being criticized as being a Russian asset.

00:40:38.580 But whether we like it or not, when we have wars, wars must stop and there needs to be a ceasefire and there need to be lines of communication rather than just...

00:40:50.580 Any of these sort of allegations without any kind of substantive evidence, it reminds me of the kind of worst of 20th century partisanship.

00:40:59.900 It's utterly irrational.

00:41:02.200 And it's just a way of smearing the opponent.

00:41:05.040 Unless they have like some, here's some evidence that Vladimir Putin has been communicating with Viktor Orban or something like this.

00:41:12.300 Unless they have something to say and actually lay at his feet, then it's just, it's nothing and you can just safely ignore it.

00:41:20.380 But Karl, I think you should consider that Orban is somehow against the woke agenda and I don't know to what extent people can have it.

00:41:29.060 Here we have Ursula von der Leyen in the beginning, in January this year, saying that she is going to withhold...

00:41:35.580 Around 20 billion euros remain frozen.

00:41:39.160 They are suspended for reasons that include concerns on LGBTIQ rights, academic freedom and asylum rights.

00:41:48.520 Some are blocked under the conditionality mechanism and they will remain blocked until Hungary fulfills all the necessary conditions.

00:41:59.340 Just German dictator.

00:42:00.820 So unless you turn Hungary into a place that has the severe crime tendencies of Germany, we're not going to give you funding and we're going to block your funding and also... 0.69

00:42:12.520 Not just the crime tendencies, but unless you're prepared to transition your children and suggest that all things are equal in every way. 0.85

00:42:22.440 That's exactly why people look up to Orban and they say that, you know, we want a Europe that respects its children and respects its younger generation and the family.

00:42:35.280 Actively, yes.

00:42:35.940 And there is another thing because Hungary is constantly being attacked by the EU.

00:42:41.780 They don't want to comply with the EU migration pact.

00:42:45.700 The EU migration pact is a pact for the relocation of illegal migrants within the union and they find... 0.87

00:42:53.940 And migrants within the union and they find Hungary with 200 million euros.

00:42:59.720 One of the strange contradictions as well, because these are precisely the sorts of politicians who will claim that this is very culturally enriching.

00:43:06.140 If it really was that culturally enriching, surely there would be a scramble to see who could get the most of them.

00:43:12.960 It wouldn't be...

00:43:13.720 It's implicitly classified as a burden if you're relocating them in this way.

00:43:17.820 Yes.

00:43:18.460 Here we...

00:43:19.100 Incentives just wouldn't be necessary.

00:43:20.580 Exactly.

00:43:21.060 They'd do it automatically.

00:43:21.540 I'll show you a very funny response by Orban when he was accused by the other MEP members, the members of the European Parliament and other bureaucrats there, that he has a strong Russian lobby within Hungary that he allegedly...

00:43:38.000 Just as a quick pause on that as well.

00:43:40.380 Like, why would anyone take lectures from the Germans about being Russian assets? 0.52

00:43:44.960 So you made your entire country totally dependent on Russian energy and then got screwed over by the Americans when Russia decided it was going to invade Ukraine.

00:43:54.000 Like, I wouldn't take lectures from them ever at all about this subject.

00:44:01.280 They've been...

00:44:01.960 Sorry, they've just been totally incompetent on it. 0.97

00:44:04.900 Like, just go shut down...

00:44:05.740 Oh, you can't shut down any more nuclear power plants, can you?

00:44:07.780 You've already done that.

00:44:08.480 You know, I'm just so done with this kind of hypocritical moralising from particularly, you know, German politicians, like EU politicians. 0.50

00:44:17.440 I'm not having it.

00:44:17.980 There are definite national differences in how the Hungarians view Russia and how the Poles view Russia, which are interesting given that they've both got quite similar histories.

00:44:26.300 And Poland's probably been more persecuted by Russia historically than Hungary has.

00:44:29.220 But there was, you know, obviously the Soviet communism and the putting down the uprising in 56.

00:44:34.240 And they also put down the Hungarian liberal national revolution in 1848 as well.

00:44:37.900 The Tsar put that down too.

00:44:40.100 But for whatever reason, the Hungarians to this day take a much more pragmatic view of Russia.

00:44:45.440 It's purely kind of tied to the national interest.

00:44:47.860 Whereas in the case of Poland, there is much more of a kind of... 0.98

00:44:50.900 I like my Polish friends, but it's sort of slightly obsessive over concern.

00:44:55.900 If it helps, I can understand why.

00:44:57.620 Yes.

00:44:58.140 Oh, totally.

00:44:58.540 They're very, very close to Russia.

00:44:59.920 Yes, I totally...

00:45:00.700 But what I was going to say, sorry, is that I'm in Hungary quite a lot.

00:45:04.500 And when I'm at these things, there are far more Poles present than there are Russians.

00:45:09.420 I mean, I've never actually encountered a Russian at one of these sort of conferences in Hungary where people like Orban and Balazs Orban will speak.

00:45:16.340 It's always...

00:45:17.340 There are much more Poles who actively hate Hungary and who take a radically different view...

00:45:20.860 Actively hate Russia and take a very different view on the war to Hungary than there are Russian assets sort of milling around.

00:45:26.540 I have a sense you're going to love the next one, the Spanish person.

00:45:31.620 Let's see what Orban says here.

00:45:33.060 I'll mute him and say, he says, the number of Russians working in Hungary, he says this pure hypocrisy, last year we issued 3,000 permits, that makes a total of 7,000 Russians working in Germany.

00:45:50.780 And he says, there are 300,000 Russians working in Germany.

00:45:56.700 Sorry, I meant Hungary before 7,000.

00:45:59.040 300,000 in Germany.

00:46:01.660 Precisely my point.

00:46:03.120 My head count at these conferences checks out then.

00:46:06.720 There are barely any Russians.

00:46:08.040 It says 100,000 in Spain, 100,000 Russians in Spain and about 60,000 Russians in France.

00:46:16.280 It's very sad.

00:46:16.560 And I like it.

00:46:17.200 And I'm the one being accused.

00:46:18.260 Yeah, exactly. 0.99

00:46:19.400 Like, do not take any goddamn lectures from these. 0.99

00:46:21.340 So good. 1.00

00:46:21.700 They're hypocritical liars. 1.00

00:46:23.460 So good. 1.00

00:46:24.100 Yeah.

00:46:24.280 And when it comes to hypocritical lying, we have the Spanish head of the delegation of the Spanish Vox Party in the European Parliament, Jorge Buxade, yeah. 0.89

00:46:39.020 And he called the structure a house of demonic hypocrisy. 0.94

00:46:43.120 And he was really... 0.65

00:46:44.880 Nice.

00:46:45.680 Checks out, yeah.

00:46:46.380 Yeah, he was really...

00:46:47.380 He was really funny because he basically said that Germany is...

00:46:54.280 Germany and Spain are buying oil and gas from Russia.

00:46:58.160 And they're playing their game and they accuse Hungary.

00:47:01.280 And basically it says leftists, this is not a house of democracy. 0.99

00:47:04.600 It says this is the house of demonic hypocrisy. 0.78

00:47:07.620 And he says the rule of law and the separation of powers is destroyed by leftists throughout the Union.

00:47:14.020 So you can't talk about threats to democracy when you don't conserve your own house.

00:47:20.900 And what I want to say here...

00:47:22.700 Just why would I ever listen to any of these people on any of those subjects?

00:47:25.840 And just to sort of end the segment, he basically says, I'm deeply sorry, but I will not be indebted to you or any of you.

00:47:33.860 If we're attacked, I will defend my country.

00:47:36.180 So what is interesting here is that we see a different vision.

00:47:39.320 One that, as you said before, wasn't the original vision of the EU.

00:47:44.740 But a vision that could happen, that could take hold within the future.

00:47:52.020 Because you could say that there is no particular problem with having a union that does respect the sovereignty and culture of each member.

00:48:03.820 Because let's be honest.

00:48:06.580 Europe isn't as powerful as it was 100 years ago or 150 years ago.

00:48:12.400 There are very large players outside of Europe that could play divide and conquer within Europeans.

00:48:19.600 But primarily, they shouldn't use the EU to do this.

00:48:23.960 The EU should be the obstacle to foreign interference within Europe. 0.86

00:48:29.800 It should be the obstacle to dividing and conquering Europeans. 1.00

00:48:36.460 The problem is, right, the Germans are the obstacle to European solidarity because of this demand, this kind of demand. 0.98

00:48:45.360 The Hungarians are not constitutionally the same sort of people as the Germans. 0.92

00:48:49.800 They're not incredibly far left, right?

00:48:52.040 They weren't dominated by liberalism and communism.

00:48:53.940 Well, they weren't dominated by communism, but they're very much more obviously a sort of traditional people and see themselves as such.

00:49:02.620 Whereas the Germans are not and they don't see themselves as such. 0.94

00:49:04.940 They're very much concerned with being moderns.

00:49:07.260 And this kind of intransigence and intolerance towards the differences within the European peoples is the problem of the German leadership.

00:49:16.100 It's the German mindset.

00:49:17.400 It's this formatting, leveling view that they have.

00:49:21.280 But that alternative vision of Europe, therefore, might be helped along by Alternative for Deutschland doing better.

00:49:28.140 Because they are not slaves of that modernizing tendency.

00:49:34.540 But just to add to this, I think that this is very important.

00:49:37.700 And yes, hopefully they'll do well.

00:49:41.280 And there aren't going to be any deviations of the sort we don't want to see.

00:49:46.220 But what seems to me to be particularly important is that now Germany has lost its competitiveness with its net zero policies. 0.53

00:49:56.620 And whatever happens in Germany, I think we're not going to talk about a German-led EU anymore.

00:50:03.600 Well, it depends who's paying the bills, doesn't it?

00:50:05.420 Yes.

00:50:06.580 Right now, I think the balance of power is shifting within the union.

00:50:11.140 Quite possibly.

00:50:11.660 But still, the EU right now is functioning in a way that doesn't respect the identity of Europeans and their culture.

00:50:21.160 Right now, it's always been this way.

00:50:23.560 Yes, but we could be unburdened by what has been.

00:50:26.620 That's fair, fair.

00:50:27.640 And see what can be.

00:50:30.900 Okay, so let's finish on a Friday afternoon with something a bit fun, shall we?

00:50:35.880 Because this is something that crossed my timeline, if we can get to the next one, Samson.

00:50:40.160 And it was just, it was a very strange thread I began to pull on.

00:50:46.760 And it just came out of, like, as soon as I started looking into it, I realized, oh, this is just emblematic of everything that is wrong with the modern West, in particular Europe. 0.87

00:50:55.880 Right.

00:50:56.540 And you can see I'm using very strange sources for this, because this wasn't something that sort of hit the mainstream very hard.

00:51:02.840 And so, in 2001, as you can see, Danish ships off the coast of Nigeria had an encounter in the Gulf of Guinea, had an encounter with about nine pirates on a fairly small boat.

00:51:20.120 Now, you've probably seen the videos of, like, the Somali pirates taking oil tankers and, you know, cargo ships and stuff like that.

00:51:26.620 Suspected pirates.

00:51:27.580 Yeah, yeah, they were just being there.

00:51:32.120 There is a reason to take the pirates, actually.

00:51:34.620 Sea milling.

00:51:35.700 Yeah, they were milling in the sea, actually.

00:51:37.820 Exactly right.

00:51:38.500 But anyway, you've seen the video of the Somali pirates, where they, just on a fairly small, speedy boat, I don't know anything about boats, I'm just describing the attributes of it, rather than the name of it.

00:51:46.820 So, they zoom up to a tanker, put ladders up it, climb up it, and then just, you know, I'm the captain now, you know.

00:51:53.860 Like, so that's how these things are done.

00:51:55.900 And the same sort of thing happens in the Gulf of Guinea, around the sort of curve in the other side of Africa.

00:52:02.380 And so this is what happened in this clash.

00:52:05.120 One of the four suspected pirates that were captured, so there were, I think there were nine of them, four of them got shot, one of them got away, somehow, and four of them were captured.

00:52:17.460 One of the four captured, after a shootout with Danish troops, has had to have his leg amputated in 2001.

00:52:25.760 Nasty way to...

00:52:26.660 Sorry, in 2001 or 2021?

00:52:28.640 Sorry, 2021.

00:52:30.320 Good spot.

00:52:31.300 Yeah, so three years ago, right?

00:52:33.080 And this has been going on for three years.

00:52:35.260 And so the operation was carried out on the Danish frigate Esbern Snare, due to the severity of the wounds, to his lower limb, according to a Danish admiral.

00:52:44.040 Four gunmen were killed and four more captured in the incident.

00:52:46.580 Oh, so there were eight of them.

00:52:47.640 Oh, no, there may have been another person on board, but there's no trace of him being found, so maybe he fell into the sea or something.

00:52:53.720 And the firefight sank the smaller boat, and so the naval personnel had to pick them out of the water and rescue them.

00:53:00.840 And the battle was the first time the alleged pirates had been killed by foreign naval forces.

00:53:06.640 So they were investigating the small boats that had eight or nine Nigerians on it, because they seemed very suspicious, because they had ladders and guns.

00:53:17.220 And so, okay, you look like you're a pirate vessel, a modern pirate vessel.

00:53:22.060 You know, sort of historic pirate vessels are cooler and bigger and have big black sails. 0.99

00:53:26.820 Modern pirate vessels are crap. 0.98

00:53:28.900 Little tin boats with engines on the back. 1.00

00:53:31.760 Rusty.

00:53:32.200 Yeah, and so the Danish troops fired warning shots, the men into the air, the men started firing at the Danes, and so the Danes started firing back.

00:53:39.820 And it was something that went badly for them.

00:53:44.480 And Danish legal experts, though, the survivors have been charged with attempted murder, but Danish legal experts have said there's a risk that Denmark could fail to secure convictions because it can be difficult to prove piracy.

00:53:53.780 Because, I mean, look, we're just hanging out on the sea with a bunch of guns and a bunch of ladders on our boat, right?

00:54:00.700 That's not a crime?

00:54:01.760 Is that a crime?

00:54:02.780 That's probably not a crime.

00:54:04.020 I mean, you know, it might even be difficult to judge whose jurisdiction this is, right?

00:54:08.780 But they were caught, as I said, with ladders on their little boat.

00:54:13.980 And so, not entirely sure what to do with this.

00:54:17.320 Go on.

00:54:17.780 Yeah, I mean, you don't know.

00:54:19.020 People have ladders here or there.

00:54:20.360 Yeah, they're just sailing around in the sea off of Africa.

00:54:23.880 Occasionally, people just happen to manifest.

00:54:26.760 Yeah, just hanging around.

00:54:28.180 In the middle of the sea or something.

00:54:30.440 Could happen.

00:54:31.440 And so, anyway, this...

00:54:32.880 They had a good night out, the previous night.

00:54:35.320 We've all been there, haven't we?

00:54:37.160 But who hasn't found themselves in a small boat with a ladder off the coast of Nigeria?

00:54:42.600 But anyway, so this carried on into 2022 when the Danish were basically forced to release them.

00:54:49.140 Sorry, I've got hay fever or something coming on.

00:54:52.000 So, the four suspected pirates were detained for six weeks.

00:54:58.600 And after this period of time, they didn't really know what to do with them.

00:55:03.720 So, they essentially kind of released them back into the wild.

00:55:07.780 Because no one would take them.

00:55:09.620 So, the Danish...

00:55:13.620 I'm joking.

00:55:14.320 This is changing what they did.

00:55:15.560 The Danish armed forces had failed to find a country in the region which would take the alleged pirates.

00:55:19.840 So, the decision was taken to release the men near Nigerian waters with enough food and fuel to get to shore.

00:55:26.100 It's literally how you discover a wounded pigeon.

00:55:30.020 I literally do this all the time.

00:55:31.860 Oh, really?

00:55:32.440 Yeah, we were five cats.

00:55:33.740 And so, they're forever bringing in shrews or mice or birds.

00:55:37.020 Nurse them back to hell for a little bit.

00:55:38.660 My wife would love to. 1.00

00:55:39.640 Oh, I see.

00:55:40.240 You just throw them back out.

00:55:41.160 They couldn't prove that they were members of the pirate guild.

00:55:44.060 They didn't have the Roger Morley flag.

00:55:45.660 I treat these animals just like Nigerian pirates and just release them back into the wild. 1.00

00:55:49.860 So, they put them on a dinghy with enough food and fuel to get to the shore.

00:55:53.080 And so, it's like, right, okay.

00:55:55.560 They're not our problem anymore.

00:55:57.740 But, the guy who lost his leg, they were like, we can't just leave him on the boat, can we?

00:56:03.580 That'd be a bit unfair, wouldn't it?

00:56:05.320 This guy can't swim or walk.

00:56:07.360 So, if he has some blood, maybe sharks would like it.

00:56:11.180 Well, no.

00:56:12.240 This was like six weeks later.

00:56:13.660 But, so, you know, I think the wounds would have healed up at least somewhat.

00:56:19.260 But, so, one of the suspects was taken to Ghana where his leg was amputated,

00:56:23.960 was transferred to Denmark instead to face the charge of attempted manslaughter.

00:56:27.500 Because we can't just leave him in the sea, but then he's a pirate.

00:56:31.900 So, we can't just, you know, we've got to give him a...

00:56:34.020 Diversity.

00:56:34.620 Yeah, well, we've got to give him a trial, right?

00:56:37.360 And so, the Danish Justice Ministry said they did not feel it was possible to safely release him at sea.

00:56:41.920 Sorry, the safety of the pirates is now our concern.

00:56:45.880 Great, great, great.

00:56:47.740 And the lawyer of the pirate, because, of course, he's entitled to a lawyer.

00:56:51.580 Well, every pirate's got a lawyer.

00:56:53.640 Says, oh, it just can't be right to treat the four people so unequally.

00:56:57.960 So, well, maybe we should have put him in the boat then.

00:56:59.920 You know, equal treatment.

00:57:01.000 But the Justice Minister of Denmark said, no, no, it's, you know, it's fine.

00:57:06.840 Maybe it'll deter other pirate attacks, things like that.

00:57:09.720 And so, they extradited this guy back to Denmark.

00:57:12.980 Again, no one would claim him, so he didn't have any particular support there.

00:57:16.940 And the BBC do point out in this that this is actually fairly common.

00:57:22.540 Not one-legged pirates, but piracy itself.

00:57:26.180 Because the Gulf of Guinea often has tankers with oil and gas travelling through it.

00:57:31.000 And so, it's a piracy hotspot, which is, of course, why Danish troops were there in the first place.

00:57:34.900 Political instability, lack of law enforcement, and poverty on the land are the factors which contribute to the increased amount of piracy in the area.

00:57:41.720 So, he goes back to Denmark, and in Denmark, they basically say, yeah, no, we're not going to charge you with anything.

00:57:50.260 It's like, okay, but, I mean, it's an occupational hazard.

00:57:54.800 Yeah, maybe.

00:57:55.960 Maybe.

00:57:56.600 So, you've got a one-legged pirate in a Danish court.

00:58:00.400 He's got then, I mean, I just want to be clear.

00:58:03.820 Only a hundred years ago, the punishment for piracy was hanging.

00:58:09.580 Right.

00:58:10.480 Now, it's give them money.

00:58:12.560 Now, it's buy rum.

00:58:14.640 Maybe.

00:58:15.340 I mean, I don't know.

00:58:16.580 Maybe he drinks rum.

00:58:17.620 Who knows?

00:58:18.340 But, yeah, so, the prosecutors were like, well, he should be in prison for at least a year, right?

00:58:23.300 An expulsion from Denmark for 12 years.

00:58:26.060 And the judge presiding of the case decided, no, no, actually, the verdict is that he won't be prosecuted.

00:58:33.860 And we're not going to really do anything, because apparently, they claim he didn't fire any shots himself.

00:58:40.040 It's like, okay, well, maybe, maybe, fair enough.

00:58:42.960 And so, instead, he now gets to just live in Denmark.

00:58:46.540 Oh, my.

00:58:47.160 He's just a Danish citizen now.

00:58:49.280 Well, no, he's not actually a citizen, but he has an extended permanent right to remain.

00:58:52.660 Residence, yeah, right to remain.

00:58:54.300 Which is just crazy.

00:58:55.460 So, you can try and steal an oil tanker in the Gulf of Guinea and end up getting free money from the Danish government.

00:59:03.460 You don't even need to go to the trouble of paying people smugglers.

00:59:06.060 I mean, let's hope word of this doesn't get out too much.

00:59:08.520 Because then you're just, because for a time, the Mediterranean might seem, oh, it's very quiet.

00:59:13.420 But the Gulf of Guinea is just teeming.

00:59:16.180 Well, interestingly, the pirate's name was Lucky.

00:59:18.340 Yeah, well.

00:59:19.360 Of course it was.

00:59:20.040 It's because, I mean, you know, I mean, but, but yeah, no, so he, he's Jackie Jones.

00:59:26.340 He was claiming asylum in Denmark.

00:59:28.840 And they said, yeah, I guess you probably are a legitimate asylum seeker.

00:59:34.080 Distinctly unheroic, isn't it? 0.92

00:59:35.600 But you're a pirate. 0.96

00:59:37.280 I know. 1.00

00:59:37.740 You're a criminal. 1.00

00:59:38.600 What are you talking about? 1.00

00:59:39.320 He's not an asylum seeker. 0.55

00:59:40.680 He's the reason that people seek asylum from people like him.

00:59:44.080 Yes.

00:59:44.560 Like, are you kidding me?

00:59:45.920 But, okay, fine.

00:59:46.680 I mean, I just, we'll just look at him and go, well, I mean, look at him.

00:59:49.320 Like, look at me.

00:59:50.380 I have one leg now.

00:59:51.620 Yeah, exactly.

00:59:52.280 I lost the leg.

00:59:52.900 How'd you lose it?

00:59:53.400 Well, it wasn't a shootout.

00:59:55.240 I was, you know, committing piracy, actually, is how I, how I lost my leg.

01:00:00.240 But Nigerian pirate Lucky, who lost his leg, has been granted Danish residency.

01:00:05.880 The one-legged Nigerian does not want to talk to the press, but his lawyer said that he confirms

01:00:10.920 he'd been granted the permit and says, I can say that he is happy with the decision,

01:00:16.360 even though he had actually seen that there was no attention at all about it.

01:00:18.740 He just wants to look forward.

01:00:20.420 So he just wants to put it behind him, become a regular member of Danish society, get a job,

01:00:25.480 probably.

01:00:26.560 Did they give him a pension or something?

01:00:28.360 Well, he's going to be able to claim disabilities.

01:00:30.640 And he's obviously able to claim any money that the Danish asylum system gives him.

01:00:34.760 But, yeah, so, okay, that's interesting.

01:00:40.180 So three pirates have been left to fend for themselves, probably out.

01:00:44.560 I'm sure they've reformed themselves.

01:00:46.600 I'm sure they haven't just gone straight back to a life of piracy.

01:00:49.700 And they've taken one pirate back as a kind of pet.

01:00:53.080 Like, here's a look at our one-legged pirate.

01:00:54.820 Isn't he cute?

01:00:56.580 What are you doing?

01:00:57.820 This is one of the...

01:00:59.140 This is clearly a very odd, eccentric and exceptional case.

01:01:02.860 Yes.

01:01:03.140 And that's why we're covering it.

01:01:04.340 But it's...

01:01:06.020 There's something so unheroic about unarmed conquest as opposed to just active conquest.

01:01:11.320 I actually respect it more in a way.

01:01:13.000 Oh, 100%.

01:01:13.420 If you're just going to try and invade Europe by force in the way that the Saracens would have tried to... 0.99

01:01:19.140 Or in the way that former Muslim conquerors would have tried to... 0.90

01:01:22.260 I know this chap maybe isn't a Muslim, but to illustrate the point, unarmed conquest is just so unheroic. 0.99

01:01:26.860 And it puts the society, which is defending itself, in a very unheroic position as well.

01:01:30.980 Because at least when you have, you know, the barbarians actively at your gate with spears, with infantry divisions, 0.98

01:01:38.900 you can fight back, presumably with the consent of your own elite on your side.

01:01:44.000 Whereas in this case, it just gets entangled in...

01:01:46.520 Our pathological altruism comes into its own.

01:01:49.140 Their sort of parasitic attitude to us comes into its own.

01:01:52.160 It's just...

01:01:52.940 It's not like an eagle versus a lion.

01:01:55.520 It's a sort of crippled civilization succumbing to stomach worms.

01:01:59.180 It's just so squalid and unheroic. 0.91

01:02:01.640 It is ignoble.

01:02:04.240 Yes.

01:02:04.540 It's very ignoble.

01:02:05.920 Because it's like... 0.99

01:02:06.620 He now has to be like, yeah, well, I'm pathetic. 0.99

01:02:09.160 And we have to be like, yeah, we take pity on pathetic things. 0.99

01:02:11.960 And we're pathetic as well. 0.99

01:02:12.860 Yeah, exactly. 0.99

01:02:13.900 We're not prepared to punish you with your own decisions.

01:02:18.440 You know, it's not that you've done something wrong, even if you have.

01:02:21.900 We're just going to give you some of our money now because we feel bad that you exist. 0.97

01:02:26.780 It's all so gross.

01:02:28.380 I think somehow the state is treated like a god. 0.82

01:02:32.660 Yeah.

01:02:32.900 Infinite power, infinite mercy.

01:02:34.800 And that no one can... 0.80

01:02:39.040 No one will suffer consequences of these ridiculous...

01:02:41.340 Yeah, I mean, in Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche makes some great points about this. 0.98

01:02:45.940 About the strong society thinks that it can just accept parasites.

01:02:50.100 And so, well, you know, the punishment itself becomes cruel to the parasites. 0.99

01:02:54.580 And so we'll just take as many one-legged pirates as they come. 0.99

01:02:58.380 I mean, we're just going to keep taking until eventually the society itself collapses. 0.99

01:03:02.640 It's like, okay, but like you say, it's very, very pathetic. 0.94

01:03:07.200 You know, if it was an army, then okay, we lost to an army. 0.96

01:03:10.460 Fair enough.

01:03:10.920 That's noble.

01:03:11.720 That's, you know, the appeal to heaven.

01:03:14.820 And we were on the wrong side of it.

01:03:16.320 Okay, I accept it.

01:03:17.640 You know, but this is just sad.

01:03:19.460 And it's the same, it's particularly pronounced with Muslims in Britain as well, or sort of militant Muslims in Britain who kind of hang around Speaker's Corner. 0.59

01:03:28.100 Like, their Muslim forebears were conquerors. 1.00

01:03:31.560 They fought actively.

01:03:33.340 These guys are bitching their way to the caliphate.

01:03:35.380 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:03:36.020 You know, it's not...

01:03:36.880 Very feminine, isn't it?

01:03:37.600 Yeah, very feminine.

01:03:38.920 So, you know, yeah, exactly.

01:03:40.080 You know, Saladin would be like, so what do you do? 0.99

01:03:41.820 Well, I'm a dependent of the British state.

01:03:44.960 And I complain at them until they give me something.

01:03:47.880 Exactly.

01:03:48.280 And Saladin wouldn't be very impressed.

01:03:51.520 No, we're not talking about the pirate, are we?

01:03:53.740 No, no, just the general unarmed conquest in general, in all its manifold forms.

01:03:59.060 And I've discovered another one today.

01:04:00.600 He was screaming as he was climbing up the stairs.

01:04:03.300 So, anyway, Lucky at the moment is currently in Denmark.

01:04:07.120 He's currently receiving benefits, I don't doubt.

01:04:10.020 And even the Social Democrat Prime Minister of Denmark is like, what the hell is going on here?

01:04:15.840 Even the pantsuit deportation lady. 1.00

01:04:18.420 Yes, yes.

01:04:21.040 Excuse me.

01:04:21.620 I don't know much about Danish politics, but I'm aware that she's not a hard right figure.

01:04:27.160 But if you know anything, do let me know.

01:04:29.240 I have the impression that she, someone tried to, I have the impression that she survived an assassination attempt.

01:04:40.580 Did she?

01:04:41.340 Let me check.

01:04:42.360 Not by the pirate, right?

01:04:44.400 No.

01:04:44.520 What a lot of gratitude, yeah.

01:04:47.200 Davy Jones came out of the ship.

01:04:49.380 But she's not happy with this.

01:04:51.020 She says, I cannot defend this decision.

01:04:52.800 I said, Prime Minister Mitt Frederiksen.

01:04:57.540 He doesn't belong here.

01:04:58.820 If he's here, it's solely because of international obligations.

01:05:01.920 At least someone's calling it like it is.

01:05:04.180 But the point being, there was nothing forcing Denmark to take this guy.

01:05:07.920 I mean, they literally released his three mates back into the, like, literally releasing them back into the wild.

01:05:12.780 Like, he's like wounded animals.

01:05:14.660 There was nothing forcing them to do it.

01:05:16.060 And so, somehow now, he's just living in a house in Denmark at the behest of the Danish taxpayer, all because he was trying to be a pirate.

01:05:24.440 I found it.

01:05:26.220 She was attacked on, in June the 7th.

01:05:30.940 By who?

01:05:31.640 Yeah, by someone on the street.

01:05:33.760 Oh, right, okay.

01:05:34.540 Well.

01:05:35.500 Anyway, so that's the curious case of the one-legged Nigerian pirate. 0.98

01:05:40.380 Turns out that piracy pays if you're doing it against the Danes and probably the rest of Europe, to be honest.

01:05:46.020 But obviously, this isn't an endorsement.

01:05:48.880 I'm much more imperial when it comes to how we should punish pirates.

01:05:52.320 But, you know, we've got loads of comments now.

01:05:55.020 So, I'll go through some of those.

01:05:59.360 So, Bald Eagle says, what happened to the last time Germans said they and the Hungarians were one people?

01:06:03.780 I don't think it ended well for Europe as a whole enough.

01:06:05.500 The Russians as a world power afterwards.

01:06:06.860 My history repeats.

01:06:08.700 Yeah.

01:06:09.360 I don't think Hitler was quite as soppy as that, was he? 0.98

01:06:11.400 No, but, yeah, I mean, he wasn't.

01:06:13.960 There is a distinct hint of Anschluss about Ursula von der Leyen's statements, though, isn't there?

01:06:19.920 Well, they were one people.

01:06:20.840 It's like, oh.

01:06:21.340 Yeah.

01:06:21.560 But it doesn't apply in the case of Hungarians, though.

01:06:24.200 We need to expand the Union.

01:06:26.360 Well, I mean, there needs to be more place.

01:06:28.440 Yeah, the EU is a very expansionist block, which I don't think is good.

01:06:32.440 But it's not one that expands on the basis of shared peoplehood.

01:06:38.700 All My Tom says, could you gents take a crack at pronouncing the word squirrel, please? 0.99

01:06:43.540 Squirrel?

01:06:45.220 Squirrel.

01:06:45.860 What's Greek for squirrel?

01:06:47.400 Skiros. 0.96

01:06:48.180 Oh.

01:06:49.180 Nice.

01:06:49.460 That's exactly how I expected it, actually.

01:06:51.380 It's really close.

01:06:52.660 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:06:54.180 It's squirrel, but Greek ending.

01:06:55.920 Yeah.

01:06:57.060 That's cool.

01:06:58.580 Davey Bear says, for the Danelaw, looks like they're back boys.

01:07:01.260 Yeah.

01:07:02.680 Keith says, oh my, now the pirate can have a peg leg.

01:07:05.460 A true swashbuckler.

01:07:06.580 Yeah, and that's the thing as well.

01:07:07.700 There was something, like, genuinely kind of thematic about it.

01:07:10.400 Yeah.

01:07:10.480 Yeah, he can actually get a peg leg, or like a modern robotic leg.

01:07:14.500 I don't know if they have. 0.98

01:07:16.060 But again, there's something just truly pathetic. 0.98

01:07:20.600 I don't know what this guy looks like. 0.97

01:07:21.900 I couldn't find a picture of him.

01:07:22.880 I'd quite like to see him.

01:07:23.900 Yeah, I would like to have seen him, because I'm picturing like a long-drawn silver type.

01:07:27.080 But with Danish women being like, right, sit here, and he's just sort of defeated, you 1.00

01:07:32.420 know, with his little peg leg, in a waiting room, to be seen by bureaucrats.

01:07:38.420 He's just got a stair lift in his Danish social housing.

01:07:41.720 It goes two miles an hour down the street.

01:07:44.320 Because the reason that pirates are mythologized is there is a kind of heroic majesty about it.

01:07:48.780 It's like, no, I'm repudiating all of the civilizations of the world.

01:07:51.520 I'm going to patrol the high seas and take what I can using the force of arms.

01:07:55.760 Pirate's way of life.

01:07:57.540 Yeah, there's a distinct will to power in it that's respectable and heroic and masculine.

01:08:02.440 And self-reliant.

01:08:03.540 Self-reliant, yeah, exactly.

01:08:05.140 And also unacceptable.

01:08:06.520 Yeah, and so you just know this one-legged pirate has been sat in waiting rooms waiting

01:08:10.540 to see bureaucrats to sign off.

01:08:12.380 Can you sign on this piece of paper?

01:08:14.300 You know, it would set up a bank account for you.

01:08:16.600 So you'll get a stipend of like 200 kroner a month or whatever.

01:08:19.500 And you'll live at this dress.

01:08:20.640 Here's the keys. 0.99

01:08:21.300 And it's just so pathetic and domestic. 0.98

01:08:23.540 You know, it's like, I thought you were a pirate. 0.99

01:08:26.320 You know, it's, there's something about it that's just so gross. 0.62

01:08:30.140 And there's something like anti-human about it, right?

01:08:35.300 There's something, the system, no, we've captured everything.

01:08:37.600 We've captured the pirates.

01:08:38.820 We've captured, you know, there's nothing outside, like very much nothing outside our reach.

01:08:43.480 And I just despise it. 1.00

01:08:45.180 Just stupid. 1.00

01:08:46.420 It is also stupid. 1.00

01:08:47.540 Yeah. 1.00

01:08:47.680 Dog Breath says, Somali John Silver is the perfect example of why you absolutely 100% ensure 1.00

01:08:54.100 there are no survivors. 0.99

01:08:57.680 It's just, it's so pathetic. 0.66

01:09:00.840 Anyway, let's, let's go to the video comments. 0.95

01:09:03.000 So I'm, I'm more angry than most about what's happened with these hurricanes and the response

01:09:13.320 that the government, namely the Democrats, have had to all these red states getting beaten

01:09:20.020 up by these hurricanes.

01:09:22.100 The reason I'm more angry is because I, I know that they could actually stop the hurricanes

01:09:29.040 from essentially being hurricanes.

01:09:33.800 Right.

01:09:34.260 So this is bringing up the question of weather control.

01:09:37.580 Oh.

01:09:38.500 How do you feel about that?

01:09:39.800 I don't have strong views on this.

01:09:41.020 I know that you've had my friend and a friend of the show, as I understand it, Lewis Brackpool

01:09:45.540 on, who does have definite views on this and has done a lot of digging, a lot of, you

01:09:50.180 know, honourable work.

01:09:51.200 I have not done it myself, so I don't have a, I don't have a view.

01:09:53.400 But after 2020, I'm, I'm not axiomatically against any kind of theorising in these sorts of

01:09:58.520 directions.

01:09:59.040 Well, we, we covered this on the podcast a few months ago, because, what was it, not

01:10:03.920 Oman, Dubai, regularly do cloud seeding.

01:10:07.260 This is just something that's, you know, you can go look at their website and they've

01:10:10.200 got a, how cloud seeding works website.

01:10:12.120 This is, because of course, Dubai, deeply dry country, requires as much rain as they

01:10:16.880 can get.

01:10:18.080 There, there, there had been a storm that had flooded Dubai, but this wasn't the product

01:10:22.500 of cloud seeding, it was just the product of unlucky weather.

01:10:25.120 But it is something that they do.

01:10:26.600 And so I'm getting very tired, I suppose, of this knee-jerk reaction.

01:10:32.580 They can't control the weather.

01:10:33.900 It's like, well, there's lots of weather, weather modification technology.

01:10:37.200 Like this, this from 1963.

01:10:40.140 This, and it's totally reasonable that we would try and do something.

01:10:43.520 If there's some terrible weather coming.

01:10:44.820 Yeah, if we've got the technology to do something about it, or if, for example, you live in

01:10:48.700 a desert and you've got the technology to generate rain clouds, yeah, of course you

01:10:52.420 should use it.

01:10:53.600 The problem is when it becomes a little bit more conspiratorial.

01:10:56.500 I don't think the Democrats are trying to flood and destroy Republican states.

01:11:03.140 Although now I've said that, if someone was going to do that, it would be the Democrats.

01:11:07.240 But is the claim generally that the weather is being weaponized in order to cause these

01:11:14.040 hurricanes, or is it that it's not being used to prevent them?

01:11:17.660 Well, I mean, this particular one would be, it's not being used to prevent them.

01:11:21.640 But...

01:11:22.000 I mean, that would be more plausible to me.

01:11:23.720 I don't think either of them are particularly plausible.

01:11:26.420 No.

01:11:26.540 But I think the first is very implausible.

01:11:29.280 Yeah, but...

01:11:30.240 But your point about the Democrats...

01:11:32.140 I did see an article on the BBC yesterday that was, no, the hurricane wasn't created

01:11:37.800 by, you know, the Democrats.

01:11:39.720 This was just a natural thing.

01:11:40.900 That gets my suspicions out.

01:11:41.980 Yeah, well, that was it.

01:11:42.700 I was like, wow, what a lot of things to say.

01:11:44.860 Because it just hadn't occurred to me.

01:11:46.340 But apparently there was...

01:11:47.460 People were like, oh, no, there are lots of people saying this, and I just hadn't seen

01:11:49.800 it.

01:11:49.940 Some people said, yeah.

01:11:51.260 But I can understand why there's so much suspicion, because, yeah, the Democrats are so inveterately

01:11:56.220 partisan at this point that I wouldn't be surprised if I found out.

01:12:00.240 They were modifying the weather to hurt Republicans.

01:12:03.200 I wouldn't be shocked.

01:12:05.300 I mean, I don't think people can control the weather to such an extent.

01:12:09.700 No, I'm not.

01:12:10.200 Is there an old Superman movie where there's a villain that controls the weather?

01:12:13.800 Because in Greece, we had that conspiracy theory that there was around at the time that

01:12:19.180 Merkel was having a machine of a sword and said, you Greeks have nine months of sunshine.

01:12:26.020 Here's some bad weather for you to punish you for the...

01:12:30.240 That was the conspiracy theory.

01:12:32.720 Yeah.

01:12:32.960 I mean, I don't believe it.

01:12:34.580 I believe the intent was there.

01:12:37.780 Just watch a James Bond movie.

01:12:40.240 You see the villains and what they want to do.

01:12:43.700 But again, the problem is that the conspiracy theory sounds in some way plausible, because

01:12:48.200 the people who they're accusing genuinely hate their opposition.

01:12:52.420 Oh, they're gerrymandering the electorate.

01:12:55.820 They're changing the demos, so maybe they can change the climate as well.

01:12:58.880 Maybe they're changing the...

01:12:59.580 But I don't personally buy either claim.

01:13:04.080 Could I please ask people from the chat to quickly tell us if there's a Superman movie

01:13:08.800 where there's a villain who controls the weather?

01:13:12.140 Thanks.

01:13:12.400 Let's go to the next one.

01:13:15.800 I really enjoyed Cole talking about the little squirrels that he raised when he was younger.

01:13:20.980 That's the kind of content I think that we should see more of.

01:13:24.000 So I was just wondering if a bit more of that could be put on rotation.

01:13:28.580 Are you going to be expanding your female audience, Carl?

01:13:32.320 I think it's the subtext of that question.

01:13:34.540 The squirrel whisperer.

01:13:37.040 Yeah, so when I was about 13 or 14, basically I found some baby squirrels.

01:13:43.380 We found their dead mother or something, a big squirrel.

01:13:46.620 And these just tiny little baby squirrels were just in the bush as I was walking with a friend.

01:13:51.920 And someone came along with a dog and chased two of them off for some reason.

01:13:55.220 But me and my friend picked up these two.

01:13:56.500 And they were very passive.

01:13:57.420 You know, we literally just picked them up and they were just sat in our hands.

01:14:00.040 We carried them home.

01:14:01.240 And his parents wouldn't let him keep his.

01:14:03.180 But my parents were a lot more of a soft touch, so I took them both.

01:14:06.400 And so, yeah, we had a hamster cage.

01:14:09.160 One of them died because it choked on a sunflower seed, which was genuinely tragic.

01:14:14.040 It was in my hand.

01:14:15.080 I'm there crying and there's nothing I can do about it.

01:14:17.200 And I buried it in the back garden.

01:14:18.780 But the other one got big and we released it back in the wild.

01:14:22.060 And it was adorable.

01:14:23.120 My mum had a big wax jacket that had a very well-lined inside pocket.

01:14:26.580 And in the morning, you'd come down and pull open the jacket and it'd be there curled up in your pocket.

01:14:31.920 And it'd be like, yeah, squeaking because it didn't want the light in its eyes.

01:14:35.500 Very wholesome.

01:14:36.160 Absolutely adorable.

01:14:37.100 The best bit was when it had full run of the hallway and the stairs.

01:14:41.000 And so, when I came home from school, you'd hear the back door go.

01:14:45.620 You'd hear this bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, because it'd run down the stairs and it'd go into the hall to hang up my coat.

01:14:50.860 And it'd run up your leg and then run around your stomach, like, happy to see you.

01:14:55.680 Because it was, you know, it was adorable.

01:14:57.300 I tried to get my mum.

01:14:58.620 We had some pictures of, like, me on the stairs feeling it nuts and things like that.

01:15:02.060 Haven't been able to find them.

01:15:03.200 She couldn't find them in time for the podcast.

01:15:05.020 Ah, I see.

01:15:05.540 I'll ask her to continue looking, though, because I would actually like to tweet them out to prove that I'm not just making this up.

01:15:10.140 I swear to God, this is true.

01:15:12.300 But it was really adorable because, you know, it'd play games with you.

01:15:15.940 You know, it was actually quite a good pet.

01:15:18.440 I don't know why we don't keep squirrels as pets.

01:15:19.840 And the thing is, there's a red squirrel as well.

01:15:21.660 They don't have grey squirrels on the continent, apparently.

01:15:25.120 It's just in Britain we're being colonized.

01:15:27.920 Well, of course, you grew up in Germany, didn't you?

01:15:29.400 Well, for part of it, yeah.

01:15:30.500 So, yeah, so I'll see if I can do more squirrel-related content.

01:15:36.260 I don't know how much I can do.

01:15:37.440 You can cram it in.

01:15:38.320 Yeah, but let's get to the next one.

01:15:40.720 And for today's Lamy-entation, we look to Mr. Spock,

01:15:44.920 who reminds us that it's easier for us as civilized men to act like barbarians

01:15:50.980 than it is for them as barbarians to act like civilized men. 0.89

01:15:55.240 And somehow, David Lammy, queer Stalin, Ritsi Sunak, Labour, and the Tories, 0.99

01:16:01.760 as educated people, fail to understand that the barbarians they welcome in, 1.00

01:16:06.300 uncontrolled by the thousands, do not adopt the ways of civilized men.

01:16:11.340 As Mr. Spock would say, their assumptions are illogical.

01:16:16.580 Nothing to criticize or comment on there.

01:16:19.000 Obviously true.

01:16:22.560 Let's go to the next one.

01:16:25.240 Let's go.

01:16:55.240 so i have i have been watching uh the rings of power

01:17:01.820 did he put that together himself i doubt he put that together himself

01:17:07.540 but i have actually been watching the rings of power um it is atrocious but the only the only

01:17:11.840 good thing about it is actually the relationship between the dwarves um so i can't remember the

01:17:18.940 the male dwarf's name but deesa is the black wife dwarf but they actually have a really good

01:17:24.580 relationship because there's actually some chemistry between the characters so they're

01:17:27.580 the only good thing about it the rest of it is just atrocious

01:17:30.220 so i think he'll be ambushed by that yeah yeah yeah but russian russian does that i i think we 0.96

01:17:39.480 should have a russian garbage human send this uh mandatory video every every week um oh is he 0.98

01:17:46.080 regular yeah he is yeah um but he he has he has the talent you know the force is strong in him 0.90

01:17:52.040 i can i can say but yeah a bit ambushed is definitely

01:17:57.180 uh benjamin says uh love to catch you live well thank you benjamin um arizona desert rat says

01:18:03.640 something positive about harris she laughs like a donkey

01:18:06.500 is that positive i suppose she does a bit it is kind of weird how she just seems to be caught off

01:18:14.420 guard all the time and so the laugh is a kind of aggressive way of defending herself it's like no 0.99

01:18:20.280 we're laughing we're laughing it's like yeah but this wasn't really funny what she's also so lacking 1.00

01:18:24.380 in substance she's in need in every single filler she can get her hands on and one of them is to talk

01:18:28.860 about being a middle class kid and growing up in a middle class family another one is to cackle for

01:18:33.320 five seconds i mean that's five seconds honestly she should just really continue on with the accents 0.99

01:18:37.680 because accents are always enjoyable everyone loves a good accent right so just whatever she does

01:18:42.040 she should just switch accents code switch accents just uh because then it distracts it really 0.98

01:18:47.340 distract from the total vacuity of everything that's another potential diversion tactic yes

01:18:52.300 um are we going to the comments now yeah because i want to say that the audience corrected me oh was

01:18:58.480 it not i was thinking of mr freeze ah right from batman where he says tonight's forecast a freeze is

01:19:03.980 coming remember oh i watched um a youtube video the other day about the death of the dinosaurs and he'd

01:19:10.300 done a poll on his own channel what wiped out the dinosaurs and yeah a third of the channel thought

01:19:16.600 it was the ice age because of that batman movie it's like but also there was a james one movie where

01:19:23.620 you know the there was a guy who had a satellite on space right you know they all these are very

01:19:28.360 exotic with i think he took some diamonds from a belly dancers belly button or something and and

01:19:36.120 they put them together and had a a weird red ray and just weren't what was about to burn the world

01:19:43.080 maybe that was the world is not enough i i'm not a big bond guy so i can't tell you but oh come on how

01:19:49.220 um just i don't know just doesn't really resonate with me what about yourself i've i've watched um i

01:19:57.060 watched two bond films i i'm not i've watched uh skyfall and i've watched oh no i've watched i've

01:20:01.840 watched skyfall casino royale and whatever the most recent one was called sorry

01:20:04.900 stelios i'd like to bond over i'm ultra shocked right now sorry yeah like maybe i would like i've

01:20:11.760 not seen it enough i mean i watched all of them and i was re-watching them when they were the first

01:20:16.400 movies i started watching i'm happy for james bond to be kind of an ambassador for english culture

01:20:20.940 well you know i want if you don't know who your ambassador is you don't know who the ambassador for

01:20:27.000 greek is good point yeah look all i need to know is he's doing a good job and if you know people

01:20:33.280 come away the good opinion of us thinking of james bond that's fine totally fine but no i was just

01:20:38.680 never a fan uh andrew says uh one of the things i resent most about the left messaging is how they

01:20:43.300 try and present themselves as the resistance despite having i mean the the endorsement list for kamala

01:20:47.980 harris was just like you say it's the cathedral just comes out and reveals itself so uh yeah having

01:20:54.820 all of that behind them is just it's not persuasive and the thing is i i see them making this point

01:21:00.500 about elon musk it's like he's the world's richest man it's like yeah and he's gone rogue you know he's

01:21:04.780 not the establishment and it's very obvious he's not the establishment which is why you're constantly

01:21:09.180 like joe biden had loads of investigations into him and things like that it's like why are you doing

01:21:12.920 this you know he's he's the only person really doing anything interesting in america anymore

01:21:17.680 like he's the one who's actually advancing frontiers and the democrats are like oh god i have to stop

01:21:22.520 this guy funny kamala harris talking about dreams and aspirations yeah oh if you if you aspire to a

01:21:29.320 great big wad of what a wad of a welfare check then yes but if you want to as you say be truly

01:21:36.200 faustian which is part of the whole sort of promissory note of america you want to expand our

01:21:39.960 frontiers and our knowledge and you know settlements on mars don't want to know if you're not on board

01:21:44.460 with the dei policy yeah and nobody looks to the democrats for that no that kind of spirit nobody

01:21:49.660 thinks that that's what they think uh they're very downward facing um but uh and honestly he

01:21:56.680 says the fact the media hates trump it was the reason i came to support him almost a decade ago

01:22:00.160 in hating him at least the media will do their job and scrutinize him actually tried to bury news

01:22:04.580 about the democrats yeah i mean it was trump's response to the media a storm that was one of

01:22:10.020 the things i most found appealing about him to be honest um the fact that he was just unrepentant

01:22:15.980 someone online says if kamala institutes price controls on insulin it would reduce the number

01:22:22.080 of diabetes cases in the u.s it would also do it would do so by killing the diabetics who had no

01:22:26.920 insulin uh but the bad number would go down well yeah again uh i do think they'd do that in republican

01:22:33.380 states uh furious dan says uh the case of kamala sounds much like we haven't lied about her yet

01:22:38.500 but the thing is like there's just not much to say she's such an empty vessel that it's just kind

01:22:45.740 of embarrassing watching themselves be like yeah we're for kamala not because of any policy

01:22:49.940 because what would you say anyway um warlord wutu tai says i hope ai generated images of trump as the

01:22:57.140 sphinx absolutely sweet twitter following this article someone has already done one uh samsung can we

01:23:02.640 pull that up because it's in the dark i don't know whether we can uh get that out but um yes the

01:23:09.800 trump sphinx uh but again like okay the democrat oedipus i don't know if i'm bored with it

01:23:16.840 uh hector says notice how kamala and waltz pander to every demographic wow white people tacos her weird 1.00

01:23:24.280 accents collared greens etc trump just speaks to them as if they're all equal yeah what that's another

01:23:29.380 thing i love about trump is complete lack of filter he's just unable to mediate himself modulate himself

01:23:35.340 depending on who's talking to he just talks like trump uh he can be at a like vietnamese food chain

01:23:40.760 yeah or he can be with the world's um most famous billionaire in the form of elon musk and he speaks

01:23:46.040 in exactly the same way there's no there are no idiom shifts no accent shifts um yeah he does he does

01:23:51.280 have the comment what is it what's that kipling kipling's i both walk with kings nor lose the common

01:23:55.360 touch he genuinely does have that oh yeah and again you you saw it from the um the mcdonald's

01:24:00.960 on the silver plates like they they ragged him for absolutely ragged him for that but the thing is

01:24:07.760 when you saw the footballers coming in they were like oh brilliant mcdonald's you know like i i love

01:24:13.840 that so much anyway um omar says uh eu bureaucrats also want to protect their countries sorry i misread

01:24:19.680 that country clubs and martha's vineyards uh the nimby you that's good uh quick to act and very

01:24:25.780 effective when it's their interests at risk um yeah i think the great sphinx of trump yeah um i think

01:24:35.660 ai could do better though it needs workshopping but yeah promising first prototype yeah and uh and again

01:24:42.420 you know what do the sphinx ever really do wrong apart from meet people um but yeah no i i find myself 0.99

01:24:48.560 not even one to countenance and engage with um well maybe we should have a debate about the you know

01:24:55.080 the whole structure is irredeemable you know this can't be reformed like so it was it'd be a

01:25:01.040 gargantuan task and you'd have such an entrenched opposition that it's just i'm just for leaving it

01:25:07.940 well the thing so i think i don't want to go on i don't know much time you have but um i think that

01:25:12.540 the architects and its distinction needs to be made between the architects of the eu who were very

01:25:16.120 idealistic about beating building not even really a united states of europe but a kind of very very

01:25:20.740 strong federal progressive super state and who wanted to abolish and crush national identities

01:25:25.860 but the the reasons why member states wanted to join were actually quite pragmatic and non-idealistic

01:25:31.100 and very rational and tied to their national interests but over time the kind of idealistic

01:25:34.820 impetus of the eu has overtaken that and so people like orban find themselves in a strange position

01:25:39.480 because on the one hand it's pragmatic to be part of the eu for funding reasons yet they've got all

01:25:43.460 of these pressures existing now um i think what it would take was is a complete sea change in um in

01:25:50.360 terms of people's mentality within the eu and it would have to be spearheaded as the eu itself was

01:25:54.160 because it doesn't really matter what jean bonnet thinks unless the germans and the french want to

01:25:57.660 get together and do a coal and steel agreement so you if the political complexions and the political

01:26:02.140 loyalties and the political leaderships of europe as a whole were to shift particularly in the most

01:26:05.720 important countries like france and germany then you could possibly get a sea change happening but it

01:26:12.040 would have to be as you say gargantuan it would have to be revising everything that already exists

01:26:15.820 because the current legal framework has an inbuilt destination and it is not a happy confederation

01:26:20.920 of cooperative nationally sovereign states yeah the very principles upon which it was founded would

01:26:26.540 have to be changed indeed so and those are written into law yeah absolutely yeah yeah and these are not

01:26:31.840 just you know uh nice ideas yeah nice ideas that we pay lip service to yeah no uh there's yeah

01:26:39.040 like you say they're they're written into law it's on a set of rails and you're going along whether

01:26:43.040 you like it or not uh command and chris says uh no longer hungary resists the eu demands uh the oh

01:26:49.480 sorry the longer hungary resists the eu demands uh the more other nations people realize what has been

01:26:54.340 done and done to them uh their platitudes of diversity is our strength fall on deaf ears and

01:26:59.200 cause this right-wing populist movement um yeah i mean they're they're responsible for their own

01:27:03.140 right populism i mean every one of the western countries that is getting this is responsible

01:27:09.200 for it because it's a natural and rational reaction to what's been done to us uh roman observer says

01:27:16.080 is an eyepatch an update for site where can i download it uh it's an eyepatch an update for site

01:27:21.660 i feel there's a reference there i don't get i don't get it either baron vaughan war penguin it says

01:27:27.760 that poor poor nigerian all he wanted was to tell those danes that since he was a disposed prince 1.00

01:27:32.840 who wanted to share his vast fortune with them uh and all all they had to do was give him their

01:27:36.740 bank account number but instead they shot his leg off i know right there's no no justice for

01:27:43.280 nigerian princes turned pirates uh danny says uh carl that was not light-hearted bring back the war

01:27:48.280 on squirrels instead i thought it was quite light-hearted the nigerian pirate thought it was funny 0.99

01:27:54.260 no it was a light-hearted framing on a serious matter well yeah but it's like the problems with

01:28:02.400 the uh asylum and migration systems of europe uh are not really because of one-legged nigerian pirates

01:28:09.940 no no like you say he's a very edge case that was kind of caught up in it yes uh bleach demon says

01:28:16.140 we need an eu department of pirate health and safety they really are the most threatened workers

01:28:20.060 doing jobs the white europeans just won't do that's a good point you know very few 0.98

01:28:24.240 white european pirates anymore yes um we should be training more of our own pirates 1.00

01:28:30.760 i mean what would be the argument against that's the question yes uh paul says uh they need to give

01:28:36.640 the pirate a peg leg and a parrot well we don't know that he doesn't have a parrot given that he's

01:28:40.420 from africa but we definitely know that he didn't have a peg leg um i mean he can probably afford one

01:28:46.060 now and someone online says uh what's the charge sitting on a boat a sinese a succulent chinese boat

01:28:51.820 yes exactly um anyway harrison where can people find you more of you oh um uh european conservative

01:28:58.600 um essays and articles and the like um on youtube with european conservative i do a show called the

01:29:05.140 forge uh monthly uh sort of long term uh long form discussions with interesting people the next one

01:29:10.040 with curtis yavin is out next month the one just before was with ayan hersey ali and uh every week

01:29:15.380 um on the new culture forum with lotus leaders his very own connor tomlinson doing uh ncf deprogrammed

01:29:21.660 as well on the new culture forum on youtube great well thank you so much for joining us thank you for

01:29:25.280 having me and uh we will be back in half an hour for lads hour we'll be doing a pub quiz

01:29:29.420 and uh if you missed that for some reason which you shouldn't do uh we'll see you next week take care

01:29:34.160 thanks

01:29:34.400 thanks

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 11, 2024

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